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Moving to Sky Broadband, for (almost) free

Our broadband was up for renewal recently, actually I lie, it wasn’t up for renewal – BT hiked their prices about six weeks before the end of our contract so we were allowed to leave with no penalties. Sky practically paid us to join them though!...

Finally ordered a new camera: Sony WX220

I’ve finally ordered a new camera, I’ve been looking for weeks but I’ve ordered it tonight…. A Sony WX220 Why? Yes, I know I’ve got a DSLR, and I love my Nikon D40x, but some days it’s just too cumbersome to carry around! By the...

Laravel 5 – Handling laravel/laravel updates

It’s been a while since my first post about Laravel, I’ve learnt a lot recently (mostly from Laracasts and Dayle Rees) but yesterday stumbled on a real problem with how the project was setup, so thought I’d cover here what I did to fix it. Laravel...

Getting started with Laravel (Part 1)

I’ve been itching to learn a new language or new “something” for ages, normally client work gets in the way and I end up focussing on that. I’ve been fortunate enough to come off the end of a group of projects in recent days and due to the impending...

Gravity Forms: Submission Timestamp

We recently purchased Gravity Forms for doing some client projects and it’s fantastic… I thought I’d got everything I need but there was one thing it didn’t do that really surprised me, in the notification emails there was no way of getting the...